The water would soon bring into a boil and
Ungu-ungu was chopping wood, while praying to he god Ngai that her husband,
Bongo-bongo would be a lucky hunters. The two children,
Ungo-bongo and
Bongo-ungu, were playing in the dust near the hut, when
Bongo-bongo came holding by the neck a scrawny dwarf, alas! with a repulsing receding hairline and
washed-up blue eyes, like a dead fish. Disappointed,
Bongo-bongo said: Ungu, ungu, I don't think it's gonna be enough to fill our bellies, but today we'll have Cîțu soup, that's what he says his name is.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Denisa Neagu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In November 2021, the group has 7.500 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
